INFP-Healer/Idealist
Personality is the made up characteristics patterns of thoughts, feelings, and behaviors that make a person unique. Personality arises from within the individual and remains fairly consistent throughout life. The complex of the attributes- behavioral, temperamental, emotional, and mental that characterize a unique individual.
Personality affects many people around the world today; it also makes people react in many different ways. It can make people react either in a positive or negative way, people will either draw to one another because of a good thing or draw away because of a bad thing meaning that it will affect some people. INFP’s are considered to be healer/idealist, which is what I am considered. The definition of a healer/idealist is someone guided more by ideals than by practical considerations and they have a very high capacity for caring. They tend to have a calm and pleasant face to the world and have a high sense of honor derived from internal values.
Healers present a calm and serene face to the world, and can seem shy, even distant around others, but inside they are anything serene, having capacity for personal caring rarely found in other types. INFP’s are creative, and have sensitive souls who take their lives very seriously. They seek harmony and authenticity in their relationships with others. They happen to value creativity, spirituality, and honoring the individual self above all else. They are very tuned into inequality and unfairness against people, and get great satisfaction from conquering such in injustices.
An INFP is a perfectionist who will rarely allow himself or herself to feel successful, although they will be keenly aware of failures. INFP’s also get satisfaction from being in touch with their creativity, For the INFP personal success depends upon the condition of their closet relationships, the development of their creative abilities, and the continual support of humanity by people serving in need, fighting against injustice, or in some other way working to make the world a better place to be. INFP’s also present a calm, pleasant face to the world, they appear to be tranquil and peaceful to others, with simple desires. They internally feel their life intensely, but in the relationship arena, this causes them to have a very deep capacity for love and caring which in not frequently found with such intensity in the other types.
An INFP strengths are; warmly concerned and caring toward others, sensitive and perceptive about what others are feeling, royal and committed, want lifelong relationships, deep capacity for love and caring, driven to meet others needs, strive for "win- win" situation, nurturing supportive, and encouraging, likely to recognize and appreciate others for space, able to express themselves well, and flexible and diverse. In this particular case the bad out ways the good. Some of there weaknesses are: may tend to by shy and reserved, don’t like to have their "space" invaded, extreme dislike of conflict, extreme dislike of criticism, strong need to receive praise of positive affirmation, may react emotionally to stressful situations, have difficulty leaving a bad relationship, have difficulty scolding or punishing others, tend to be reserved about expressing their feelings, perfectionist tendencies may cause them to not give themselves enough credit, and they have a tendency to blame themselves fro problems, and they tend to hold everything on their own shoulders.
Idealist is relatively rare, making up no more than 15 to 20 percent of the population. But their ability it inspire people with enthusiasm and there idealism that has given them influence for beyond their numbers. The subcategories for Healers/Idealist are broken into two categories. The first group is advocates, under advocates and Champions (ENFP), and Healers, which are (INPP). The second is Mentors and under that, they are considered counselors (INFJ) and teachers (ENFJ).
The learning skills of an INFP are: like general concepts and original or complex material. seek patterns among seemingly unrelated events and ideas, value artistic expression and the written word, say they spend up to nine hours a week in serious non-required reading, and want instructors to arouse enthusiasm for learning. During reading, writing, and studying INFP’s need quiet to study or do serious work, may be surprised in college because they did not have to study to achieve good grades in high school, usually interested in literature, write best from inner inspiration, drawing ideas from diverse sources and showing conceptual link, and also when revising, they may need to shorten sentences overly complex ideas to get to the point quicker, and provide factual dates to illustrate points.
INFP’s prefer occupations in which they can be involved in making the world better. Having there heart in there is important to them. These occupations also allow for an element of creativity and flexibility. INFP’s are particulary interested to be a counselor, editor. education counsaltant, English tacher, fine arts teacher, journalist, psychologist, religious teacher, social scientist, social worker, teacher, writer, amd other occupations that engage their values. Famous INFP's are Oprah Winfrey, Princess Diana, Eleanor Rossevelt and some fictional INFP's are Tommy(Rug Rat cartoon), and Mary which s the mother of Jesus. The symbol for this particular type is a golden retriever.
A golden retirever is a sturdy well proportioned dog with a feathered, medium- length, cream to golden colored coat. A golden retriever is a loving well mannered intelligent dogs with a great charm. They always are loyal, confident, patient dogs and they are sweet and eager to please dogs. This dog is friendly with everyone and it needs to be around people who display leadership to be happy. There are four compatible personalities, the three best matches are ENFJ- social philosophers, ENJP- growth teachers, INFJ-mystic writers, and last but not least INFP-idealistic philosophers.
For INFP's if they want to win the heart for there ideal mate they must, keep the conversation warm, personal, and conflict free, be wary of violating their deeply held values, engage them in conversation and take them on dates that revolve around arts, relationships, psychoogy, and finding the meaning of life, and also being considerate of need to spend, intimate time with someone. Although two well developed individuals of any type can enjoy a healthy relationship. INFP's natural partner is the ENFJ or the ESFJ. INFP's dominant function of Introverted feeling is best matched with a partner whose dominant function is Extraverted feeling. INFP's and ESFJ's are also good matches and two conflicting personalities are Guardians and Artisians.
INFP's look at love as a very deep committment and one that is not easily attained. They have ideals and therefore reality may be carefully scrutinized. With there ideal firmly envisioned, the first date with that special person is carefully planned and prepared for, and often every aesthetic thing is taken care of. The flowers are in place, the right wine is ordered, and the proper meal is prepared. INFP's may have difficulty sharing their feelings about others. They keep so many of there feelings inside that they tend to forget to telll there partner how much they love and appreciate them. Also when things go wrong in a relationship, the INFP takes it to heart but does not readily discuss it with others. They may not be willing to communicate to let others know how they are feeling. When scorned, they are very hurt and tend to overreact.
INFP's are usually very intense and sensitive people, and feel seriously threatened by criticism. They are likely to treat any point of view other than there own as criticism of their own perspective. If the INFP does not learn how to deal with this perceived criticism, the INFP will begin to shut out the incoming information that causes them pain. Leisure activities are very important to INFP's but at times it is difficult for them to seperate work from play. When a new pursuit is found, INFP's typically do a great deal of research. They may read many books and make several phone calls to dig for information. Many of the INFP's leisure activities are done alone- reading, listening to music, and gardening are some activities likely to appeal to them.
Reflection time and the opportunity to make sure things are right are important. INFP's often enjoy leisure pursuits with loved ones as well. When they want to be socialble , they can be exceedingly charming and outgoing. Their flexibility, gentleness, and sense of humor can make them quiet popular in social situations.
